Presentation Progress

This week is all about presentations and I'm a little worried about mine. I'm passed the layout phase and getting everything to look the way that I want it to. I also pretty much got all the fundamental information placed on my slides. What I'm working on now is explaining everything that I put on my slides. Without a doubt I know my presentation and I know the information that I put in it. I explained why I chose the project that I did and how it means to me. Like I said, the ground work is finished and I know my material. The next step for me is to make it into a presentation. The next step for me is to make it so that the audience will pay attention to me from the minute I walk into the door to the minute they leave. I want to make it so that this topic that doesn't seem to interesting to a lot of people engages anyone who takes the time to listen. Today I worked on putting notes under my slide. I decided that the best way for me to practice and nail my presentation is to right down everything that I want to say on a particular slide, practice it consistently and what I don't have nailed down would go on my note cards in case I get tripped up. I spent the entire time on that making sure I chose the right words and explained what I needed to explain. I'm also thinking about how I plan to open up my project. I do have a first slide that it symbolic to my presentation but its not enough for me. I wanted to sort of open up my presentation with like a question. I wanted to hold up a blown up map - similar to one that I had at my Site Visit - and circle a few countries to quiz the panel and see what they knew. I would kind of tie it in to how much trouble it was for the students at my Site Visit to identify some of the countries and explain how this ties into the focus of my project. However, its just an idea and I'm not sure what is a good idea and what really isn't. This is where I am right now and I know I have way to go before I am completely confident in presenting.

For Tuesday

Hello all....After consuming about an hour transferring everything to my H Drive, I worked on my paper and incorporated some of my interview into it so I could get my teacher edit. After giving my paper to Mr. Hamilton, I then went on to work on my Presentation. It took me a while to figure out what layout and design I wanted to use but afters some deep pondering, I centered down on an idea. I realized while doing the project, a lot my pictures will need to be from students studying abroad. So...I made a note to e-mail the interns who I interviewed so they can send me their pictures from their experience and that way, I'll be able to explain every picture in my presentation.

Oh look...Mr. Hamilton just handed me my paper back....yay

For the Weekend

I made a lot of progress this week. On Wednesday I conducted my interviews with my mentor and 2 interns. It was very insightful and I have a lot of information to include into my paper. With this, I will finally be able to conclude my paper with all the information needed and get my teacher edit completed. Also, I'm just about finished with my website. I finished about 5 pages this week and am putting the finishing touches on it. Over the weekend I plan on working on my Literature Review so I can get it edited on Monday in addition to starting my Presentation and putting all the necessary information on it. It will be very busy but will for the better come Monday.

End of the Week

Its the end of the week but it has been productive. I have confirmed my date for my interview with two interns and my mentor. Its going to be next week and that will also be the time where I will take pictures of the office and it will contribute to the documentation of my action plan. I continued to work on my website for the entire two hours and am making progress. I'm almost half way down and once I complete my interview, I will be able to complete that page on my website. With significant time devoted to my website during the weekend, I'm sure that I will be able to complete the majority of it and move on to putting together my presentation.

For Wednesday's Forecast...

I don't remember what I blogged last time so I'm just going to relay the most recent things that I have completed since there really isn't a need to keep repeating myself. Yesterday I worked the entire time on my website. I changed the layout of the homepage at least 3 times before I was happy with the one I have now. I took me a long time to get everything where I wanted it to be. Pictures are a really pain to deal with and its really upsetting that we need so many of them. Today I continued working on my website and placed in all of my roll over buttons for the homepage. I think I can move on from it now and work on my FAQs page. After the first hour of working on my website, I turned to getting my interview completed. I already had my interview questions completed from last year and so now all I had to do was get someone to interview. I had been waiting on my mentor to e-mail me back and she hadn't yet so I sent her another e-mail and thankfully, she e-mailed me back 5 minutes later. Though the time and date is not set, I'm going to be interviewing her and another intern that she will provide for me hopefully before the end of next week which is tremendously great news. Now from then on, I'll be able to fully complete my Lit Review.

Update..

I haven't blogged in a while but have been making some progress. Today I finished my peer editing today with Eric F. and will be editing the many mistakes that we found in paper. There weren't as many as I thought there were but Eric said that it was a good paper so it can't be that bad. I've started to work on the homepage of me site which is coming along well. I've got an idea of what I want to for how I want to set up the rest of my pages. Overall, everything seems to going at a good pace. My action plan is done so I don't have to worry about it anymore. I just have to get the pictures that I'm going to use for my presentation and save them as my documentation of the project. I still haven't gotten any responses about whether or not the interns at my internship have been selected yet but I think I'll just change who I want to interview considering I might be waiting for a long time and time is precious.

Deviating From The Plan

So I'm wrapping up my Literature Review but my action plan was still in the back of my mind. After talking to my mentor, I just about lost all hope of an international fair taking place any time soon. It just wasn't coming together and I had came to the conclusion that I was just going to have to deviate from the plan and find another action. That was all before I spoke with Ms. Savido. After talking with her, she informed me that the Site Visit that I had done during my internship in March as a good action plan that I should use instead. I was a little shaky about it because I didn't think it would be a good action plan and I didn't have many pictures of what happened. She on the other hand said it would be great for an action plan and I could just go to the office, take pictures of it and explain the workings of the facility. In no time I was in love with the idea and it was great because now my action plan is already finished. I don't have to worry about that anymore and can focus all of my attention now to my electronic portfolio and literature review. Things are starting to look better.